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Bus runs into Christian worshippers in Adamawa, injures 17

A
passenger bus on Monday overran a procession of Christian worshippers injuring
17persons partaking in Easter Monday
Holy ritual of a church in the Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State.

Many
of the victims, who sustainedbone
fractures were reportedly taken to different hospitals in Numan, the council’s
headqauarters.

Eyewitnesses
said the accident happened around 10 am, adding that the bus had been seized
and the driver arrested.

One
of the eyewitnesses, Stanley Jaule, said the affected members of the Christian
community were marching towards a mountain which they called Galilee when the
bus ran into them from behind.

He
said, “While they were participating in Easter procession, a passenger bus just
came from behind them and injured so many people, mostly women and children.”

He
added that the accident almost caused a serious crisis as others in the
procession became angry and tried to grab the driver.

Jaule,
however, said peace later prevailed as some passersby were able to calm down
the Christians.

The
state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Othman Abubakar, who confirmed the
incident, told our reporter that policemen helped in calming down the people
affected.

Othman
said, “There was an incidence which occurred this morning where a passenger bus
lost control and ran into some worshippers injuring several persons. There was
tension as a result of the incidence, but our men were able to bring the
situation under control and normalcy has returned to the area.”

It would seem from available accounts that the earliest form of Western-style
health care in Nigeria was provided by doctors brought by explorers and traders
to cater for their own well being.[2] The services were not available to the
indigenes.